VMware Success Stories

Fuji Keizai Co, Ltd.

To improve the security of sensitive data on its servers, Japanese market research company Fuji Keizai implemented a thin-client environment back in 2008. However, there were considerable issues around managing the thin clients and further problems supporting mobile devices. After exploring all options, the company switched to a VMware Horizon View client environment with support for multiple device types.

"VMware Horizon View is optimised for use in virtual desktop environments, and it also meets our needs by providing integrated management tools and full support for mobile devices."

Fujitsu TDS GmbH

Market advantage through virtualization

As a complete IT service provider and SAP system consultant, Fujitsu TDS GmbH, a subsidiary of the Fujitsu Group, offers medium-sized and large companies a wide variety of data centre services. In addition to IT outsourcing and application management, the focus of their services is on SAP. This includes certified SAP consulting and SAP hosting as well as SAP-based industry solutions and templates, and in-memory computing with SAP HANA. The portfolio also includes private cloud services, which Fujitsu provides from their own highly secure data centres in Germany. Well-known customers in the automotive, retail and processing industries, as well as banks and insurance companies, rely on its independent, competent support. Fujitsu manages the specific quality and security requirements of a variety of industries thanks to continuous further development. Its great capacity for implementation and its optimum results are based on the high qualifications of its IT consultants. To provide our customers with an optimum SAP infrastructure, it's essential that, in terms of technology, we always stay a step ahead of the competition. For this reason Fujitsu counted on virtualisation of SAP Sybase ASE with VMware vSphere.

"To provide our customers with an optimum SAP infrastructure, it's essential that, in terms of technology, we always stay a step ahead of the competition. With SAP virtualisation with VMware, that's exactly what we've done."

Gangnam Severance Hospital

By moving to a VDI environment based on VMware View, GSH was able to comply with new data security requirements and improve mobile access to medical information, without requiring costly hardware upgrades.

"We tested old PCs with a view to
minimising our procurement spend – and
to our surprise, we found no significant
performance difference between these
and new machines in a VDI environment.
So we were able to reduce expenses by
continuing to use the current equipment."

GarudaFood

Indonesia’s leading food and beverage company adopts an ambitious virtualization strategy to support its rapidly growing business

“Virtualizing SAP results in higher
availability at a lower cost.
Most importantly, it provides
continuous access to the system
for our users, boosting their
productivity as well as our
revenues. This is exactly the kind
of stability our operations need.”

Golf Course Superintendents Association (GCSAA)

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“vCloud Air provided us an Agile solution to assist us in our cloud transformation.”

Gruppo Zucchetti

The challenge was to overcome the limitations of physical infrastructure in a data center that had reached the limits of space and required electricity costs for maintenance. The company also wanted to provide its services as cloud. VMware vSphere allows all business-critical applications to run, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager provides security and reliability, while VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite simplifies IT activity.

"Our data center has always been a cost. In the last year, thanks to VMware, it's become a business. And everything seems to indicate that this will just keep getting better."

Hamilton County

The job of a 20-person IT team supporting 1,000 government employees gets more difficult when the County begins considering a major software upgrade. That’s what IT staff experienced in Hamilton County, located just north of Indianapolis. When Hamilton County had to upgrade to Microsoft Windows 7 and Office 2010, IT staff knew many of its PCs weren’t powerful enough to run them, so they looked to VMware and Unidesk solutions for help.
In combination, VMware Horizon View, Unidesk, Dell storage and servers, and zero clients are enabling Hamilton County to achieve all of its desktop virtualization goals—from improved IT staff efficiency and enhanced workforce mobility to greater security and resiliency from desktop failure and disaster. The solution has increased IT agility by reducing provisioning times from hours to minutes, and improved anytime, anywhere employee access to data, applications, and desktops for all county employees.

“Desktop virtualization would allow us to reuse these PCs and extend their life. Plus, our public offices could introduce initiatives or application requirements at any time. Virtual desktops would give us a faster, easier way to respond to these requests while maintaining the high standards of security and service we are known for in our county.”

HDFC Bank Limited

HDFC Bank needed to launch hundreds of branches
quickly to provide banking services to 40 million new
customers from rural and regional India. The financial
services company developed a ‘Branch in a VM’
concept to meet this objective and, between 2008
and 2012, opened more than 1,700 branches. The bank
can now provision a new branch in less than 10 days.

"In the past it could take up to a couple of months to setup a new branch. With VMware virtualization, we can do this in under 10 days."

Hertz International

To improve operational efficiencies, Hertz International had a choice of either refreshing its existing infrastructure across its European locations at considerable expense, or implementing newer technologies. In addition to centralising the server estate, Hertz International wanted to simplify its complex desktop infrastructure, which constituted a considerable capital investment. Having over 4,000 PCs and laptops spread over 1,000 sites around Europe, upkeep and maintenance of these were real issue in terms of time, resource and cost. Following a review of the major offerings on the market, Hertz International decided to implement VMware View as it best suited the organisation’s needs and would easily integrate with its existing server virtualization infrastructure. It also made a decision to replace legacy desktop devices with zero client Wyse terminals.

“By virtualizing our server and desktop estate with VMware, we’ve cut costs, dramatically simplified our IT infrastructure and transformed how we support over 1000 desktops in our service centre in Dublin. We’re able to create and deliver even more innovative technology services to our users, while enhancing the experience we provide to our customers. The platform VMware has enabled us to build has given us extremely strong foundations to realise even greater benefits, as we add more and more services and extend the research of the programme internationally.”

Hewlett-Packard

HP Enterprise Services collaborates with VMware Technical Account Management Services to succeed with virtualization—and new customers. Working with a VMware Technical Account Manager, the company’s engineering group has built a center of expertise that helps HP customers move ahead with virtualization efforts. HP Enterprise Services provides a range of services, including consulting, outsourcing and integration, helping clients with technology-related initiatives involving everything from business transformation to the cloud, analytics and security. HP gains additional new business through this engagement and expertise in virtualization. Part of Hewlett Packard’s HP Enterprise strategic business unit, the organization has more than 139,000 employees in 60 countries.

“[The TAM] has had a huge part in helping us demonstrate the value of our solutions to customers and ultimately, in helping us build business.”

Hoka Hoka Bento

Hoka Hoka Bento operates Japanese fast-food restaurants across Java and Bali in Indonesia. The company needed to establish a dynamic, highly available infrastructure to support its planned consolidation of critical business systems. By implementing VMware virtualization, Hoka Hoka Bento established a sound platform to deploy a Microsoft Dynamics enterprise resource planning system in 2014.

"With our systems running in a reliable virtual infrastructure, we can continue to improve our performance and reputation, and look at ways of increasing turnover."

Hong Kong Housing Society

The Housing Society has offices throughout the city-state, and when swine flu reached Hong Kong in 2009, the organization realized it needed an alternative location to ensure some employees could still access vital tenancy information and critical services should there be an infectious disease epidemic or natural disaster. The organization virtualized its data center five years ago on VMware vSphere to consolidate its sprawling physical infrastructure and has achieved 94 percent virtualization. All mission critical applications are now virtualized, including its iHousing system for tenancy management, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Oracle JD Edwards financial application. The organization worked with VMware to design and implement a virtual desktop infrastructure solution delivered by VMware Horizon View.

"A virtual desktop solution delivers greater flexibility to our employees because the data follows them rather than tying them to a single location. We had a strong relationship with VMware and existing expertise in the vSphere server virtualization software, and so it made good business sense to virtualize our desktops with VMware."

Housing Finance Bank

In this video, Tirus Mutoru, Head of IT for Housing Finance Bank, outlines how his team have benefited from virtualization and the support from HP and VMware partners. His team has been able to dramatically reduce the time taken to provision servers – from 6 weeks to one hour.

“It was quite interesting because I was using both the Hyper-V and also VMware, but then based on experience on ease of use; me and my team finally settled on VMware.”

Iatric Systems

This video montage, which aired during Bill Fathers keynote session at VMworld 2014, features customers using vCloud Air. SAIC, Iatric Systems and Perforce Software discusses how VMware vCloud Air is changing the way they do business and how they have benefited.

“The challenge was, how do we build a bigger system, vCloud Air has given us a solution that is cost effective, that is secure, that is robust, that is scalable but is something we can also implement very easily and rapidly for the customer”

Iatric Systems

Iatric Systems, Inc. is using VMware vCloud Air to offer its healthcare software as a service to customers, reducing costs and increasing agility

Thanks to VMware’s vCloud Air solution, Iatric Systems can now offer their healthcare software as a service (SaaS) to its customers in a completely secure manner, reducing cost and increasing agility and scalability.

"The fact that vCloud Air has an ISO Certification, as well as a HIPAA High Tech Certification and they’ll sign a BAA, that gave us a, a very high degree of comfort and that’s something that we’ve been able to take and share with our customers and give them comfort as well."

Video - vCloud Air Customer Montage

IBA

Alain Delaby, IT manager at IBA talks about his 10 years journey of using VMware virtualization and how it has helped him to have a good continuity of service with their main business applications.

“We are always looking what new features we can bring to our business to make it more reliable and easier to manage and that are the main interests. At this point, VMware is still meeting our expectations so we are continuing to work on that.”

IBC Bank

IBC Bank Changes VDI Economics with VMware Virtual SAN

By migrating data from more costly legacy solutions to VMware Virtual SAN, IBC Bank is enjoying significant cost savings and has changed the economics of their VDI deployment. With the new Virtual SAN solution in place, IBC Bank is able to simplify operations and more easily and cost-effectively expand its VDI footprint to deliver a more agile and budget-friendly solution.

“Virtual SAN lets us buy what we need, when we need it. With non-disruptive scaling, we can add more capacity or increase performance at any time without interrupting our operations. Virtual SAN enables us to be far more responsive to the constant changes in our environment.”

Ideosity

Ideosity, a boutique technology consultancy with large global clients,
needed to ensure that client data was safely backed up and could be
easily recovered by a small IT team. With the VMware vSphere Data
Protection Advanced solution, data is backed up and replicated to
offsite locations as an added measure of protection. Best of all,
backups and replication that once took 12 hours or more can now be
completed in less than three hours. Faster data protection means
Ideosity can do more with existing hardware and its existing IT
resources, saving time, money, and effort.

“I’ve virtualized with VMware and prefer backing up with VMware. With vSphere Data Protection Advanced, backups have gotten more sophisticated. It is cost-effective and reliable— kind of set it and forget it.”

IndonesianCloud

Virtual SAN enables IndonesianCloud to remain competitive

IndonesianCloud, a cloud service provider, part of the vCloud Air Network, focuses on delivery of enterprise class hosting services to their customers. Their customers primarily run mission critical workloads in IndonesianCloud’s three datacenter environment, which means that stability, reliability and predictability is really important.

The traditional environment they had earlier wasn’t allowing them to remain competitive in a dynamic and price sensitive market. After evaluating several different hyperconverged and software-based offerings they settled on VMware’s hyperconverged infrastructure solution, Virtual SAN.
Since the Virtual SAN platform was placed into production, they have deployed over 450 new virtual machines onto their initial 12 node cluster. In addition, migration of another 600 virtual machines from one of their legacy storage platforms onto their Virtual SAN environment is underway.

"VMware Virtual SAN and hyperconverged infrastructure enabled us to reduce our overall platform cost by a staggering 70% which translated directly into savings for our customers. Beyond just direct savings we are also able to simplify how we scale our platform."